Film dealing with case of arrogant bully (8)
I believe the answer is:
mistreat
'bully' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'film dealing with case of arrogant' is the wordplay.
'film' becomes 'mist' (to film over is to mist or fog over).
'dealing with' becomes 're' (regarding).
'case of' suggests removing the centre (like emptying a case).
'arrogant' with its middle removed is 'at'.
'mist'+'re'+'at'='MISTREAT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mistreat that I've seen before include "Ill-use" , "Deal unfairly with" , "Handle unfairly" , "Handle badly" , "Behave badly towards" .)